Tag: Management Domain
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VCF 9 Management Domain Bring-Up with the VCF Installer (VCF 9 Series, Part 8)
A step-by-step VCF 9 management domain bring-up with the VCF Installer: depot setup, the live-validated wizard, what gets deployed, and the DNS sweep that prevents most failures.
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VCF 9 Reference Architecture: Sizing, Topology and Design Trade-offs (VCF 9 Series, Part 7)
The VCF 9 management domain topology, appliance sizing and the standard versus consolidated decision, plus the one appliance (VCF Automation) that quietly drives your whole BOM.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Architecture: Fleet, Instances and Domains Explained (VCF 9 Series, Part 2)
The VCF 9 hierarchy is fleet, instance, domain, cluster. Here is what each layer really means, the host-count minimums, and why you should schedule change windows by domain and fleet-services, not by vCenter.
Architect’s Toolkit
PJ’s Tools
VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
- VCF 9 Planning & Preparation Workbook
- VCF Bill of Materials (BoM)
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- VMware Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- VMware Ports & Protocols
- VMware Hands-on Labs
- RVTools Download
Nutanix
AI & Cloud-Native Platform
- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise Reference Architecture
- NVIDIA NIM Performance Benchmarking
- NVIDIA NGC Catalog
- NeMo Microservices Helm Chart
- Helm Charts Repository
- Hugging Face Models
Architecture & Design
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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